Qualla: Battle of Winwick https://qualla.com/battle-of-winwick en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:23 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/0/battle-of-winwick-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Winwick https://qualla.com/battle-of-winwick Battle of Winwick: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-winwick/ Photo credit After Samuel Cooper, Public domain. Two nights without sleep, two days without food, soaking wet, and almost out of dry gunpowder. That was the condition of the Scottish infantry when they turned at a small stream near Winwick on the morning of 19 August 1648 and decided to fight. They had run from Preston, marched all night through the rain, watched their cavalry abandon them at Warrington bridge, and now Cromwell's troopers were closing on the road behind. So they took shelter behind a hedge-lined bank above Hermitage Brook and prepared to make a stand. By nightfall, a thousand of them would be dead, two thousand prisoners, and the Second English Civil War would be effectively over.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/0/battle-of-winwick-wp/gcw0-battle-of-winwick-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Winwick: The Long Retreat https://qualla.com/battle-of-winwick/ Photo credit Racklever at en.wikipedia, Public domain. The fight at Winwick was the end of a chase that had begun two days earlier and 25 miles to the north. At Preston on 17 August, Cromwell's much smaller Parliamentarian army had ambushed the strung-out Royalist column commanded by the Duke of Hamilton, cut off Marmaduke Langdale's...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/0/battle-of-winwick-wp/gcw0-battle-of-winwick-the-long-retreat.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Winwick: The Position at Red Bank https://qualla.com/battle-of-winwick/ Photo credit Shaun Brierley, CC BY-SA 4.0. About nine miles south of Wigan, between the villages of Newton and Winwick, the road dipped down to cross Hermitage Brook. A steep bank rose on the south side of the valley, locally known as the Red Bank, and the ground around the ford was thick mud. Hedges lined the slope above...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/0/battle-of-winwick-wp/gcw0-battle-of-winwick-the-position-at-red-bank.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Winwick: Three Hours of Push of the Pike https://qualla.com/battle-of-winwick/ Photo credit Creator:Royal Workshops at Greenwich, CC0. The Parliamentarian advance guard rode straight into the Scottish position and was, in the words of Lieutenant John Hodgson, snaffled and put to retreat. A pause followed while Parliamentarian infantry caught up. Then Colonel Thomas Pride's regiment led the first push of the pike...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/0/battle-of-winwick-wp/gcw0-battle-of-winwick-the-flank-march.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Winwick: What the Battle Ended https://qualla.com/battle-of-winwick/ Photo credit Anthony van Dyck, Public domain. Winwick was the last battle of the Second English Civil War. News of it reached the Royalist garrison at Colchester within days, and they surrendered to Fairfax on 27 August on harsh terms. Hamilton was caught at Uttoxeter on 24 August and beheaded the following March. Cromwell, ...

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